I look forward to your progress updates about forging your own transistors by hand
November 4, 2026 at 6:55 AM
I look forward to your progress updates about forging your own transistors by hand
Luxury! In '64 they soldered in discrete transistors:
October 28, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Luxury! In '64 they soldered in discrete transistors:
all the little capacitors and transistors are crying...
November 1, 2026 at 5:05 PM
all the little capacitors and transistors are crying...
And transistors (electrical)
November 4, 2026 at 7:00 AM
And transistors (electrical)
Transistors make me laugh
November 4, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Transistors make me laugh
time to learn about transistors!
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November 4, 2026 at 9:36 AM
time to learn about transistors!
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We would be Transistors lol
October 30, 2026 at 7:05 PM
We would be Transistors lol
Also obligatory...
October 29, 2026 at 8:14 AM
Also obligatory...
Tiny magnetic inductors delivered more than twice the inductance of comparable air-core devices—a gain that could help shrink chip power components, pending testing in complete converters. doi.org/hcq2bp
Magnetic nanocomposites could help shrink the components that power computer chips
When you think about making computer chips better, you probably think about transistors. My colleagues and I focused on a less visible part of the problem: the components that deliver power to those transistors.
phys.org
November 2, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Tiny magnetic inductors delivered more than twice the inductance of comparable air-core devices—a gain that could help shrink chip power components, pending testing in complete converters. doi.org/hcq2bp
My first transistor radio, now long left behind, had 4 transistors in it. A top level iphone has more than 15 billion transistors. The music is a little better now.
October 27, 2026 at 8:23 PM
My first transistor radio, now long left behind, had 4 transistors in it. A top level iphone has more than 15 billion transistors. The music is a little better now.
Those ones and zeroes and transistors have to be somplace and it might as well be in my house, under my control.
October 30, 2026 at 8:37 PM
Those ones and zeroes and transistors have to be somplace and it might as well be in my house, under my control.
It's the same as EEs using micro controllers and PLCs vs some relays or transistors for some simple interlock logic. It feels wasteful and less reliable for no apparent gain… but I guess that's the world we live in.
November 1, 2026 at 2:37 PM
It's the same as EEs using micro controllers and PLCs vs some relays or transistors for some simple interlock logic. It feels wasteful and less reliable for no apparent gain… but I guess that's the world we live in.
#crée #valets #transistors
October 31, 2026 at 11:21 PM
#crée #valets #transistors
And we can't understand EVERYTHING, we're not gods, so we rely on abstraction. Computing is all voltages across transistors, but a proglang let's us not think about that and focus on modeling the logic, and we rely on the compiler to do that translation across the abstraction
November 3, 2026 at 2:49 PM
And we can't understand EVERYTHING, we're not gods, so we rely on abstraction. Computing is all voltages across transistors, but a proglang let's us not think about that and focus on modeling the logic, and we rely on the compiler to do that translation across the abstraction
#crée #valets #transistors
October 31, 2026 at 11:21 PM
#crée #valets #transistors
Enabling High-Frequency Characterization for Dynamic Modeling of Schottky Barrier Field-Effect Transistors
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
November 3, 2026 at 9:23 AM
Enabling High-Frequency Characterization for Dynamic Modeling of Schottky Barrier Field-Effect Transistors
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#susciter #encore #transistors
October 31, 2026 at 1:16 PM
#susciter #encore #transistors
I could fix anything, crt re alignment tubes, transistors, I taught electronics at college level, now everything it just replace, what happened?
October 31, 2026 at 7:18 PM
I could fix anything, crt re alignment tubes, transistors, I taught electronics at college level, now everything it just replace, what happened?
#susciter #encore #transistors
October 31, 2026 at 1:16 PM
#susciter #encore #transistors
Yes. But the difference is: Those three companies build the RAM chips with transistors several magnitudes smaller than what he did there in his shed. The problem isn't so much the conceptual capacity to do that, but the dimensions we need today.
www.youtube.com/shorts/kxFp6...
www.youtube.com/shorts/kxFp6...
He Built A Computer RAM In a Backyard Shed 😳 #viral #shorts
YouTube video by Ken Fecto
www.youtube.com
November 2, 2026 at 10:07 PM
Yes. But the difference is: Those three companies build the RAM chips with transistors several magnitudes smaller than what he did there in his shed. The problem isn't so much the conceptual capacity to do that, but the dimensions we need today.
www.youtube.com/shorts/kxFp6...
www.youtube.com/shorts/kxFp6...
#AppleII + from 21,180 transistors in a browser simulator
#retrocomputing #emulation #emudev #apple2 #vintageapple
#retrocomputing #emulation #emudev #apple2 #vintageapple
From the homebrewcomputer community on Reddit: I built an Apple II+ from 21,180 transistors in a browser simulator — it boots DOS 3.3 and runs VisiCalc
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November 3, 2026 at 1:32 AM
#AppleII + from 21,180 transistors in a browser simulator
#retrocomputing #emulation #emudev #apple2 #vintageapple
#retrocomputing #emulation #emudev #apple2 #vintageapple
Two Georgia teachers are bringing their Georgia Tech research experiences into the classroom, inspiring students to experiment, ask questions, and see new possibilities. #ResearchforRealLife b.gatech.edu/3UyBhZ2
November 3, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Two Georgia teachers are bringing their Georgia Tech research experiences into the classroom, inspiring students to experiment, ask questions, and see new possibilities. #ResearchforRealLife b.gatech.edu/3UyBhZ2
Radiation in LEO is 100s of times higher than on Earth. The chips used for AI are very, very sensitive to radiation because they use such tiny transistors. Everything that makes effective shielding is comically heavy, getting things into space remains very expensive.
November 2, 2026 at 10:21 PM
Radiation in LEO is 100s of times higher than on Earth. The chips used for AI are very, very sensitive to radiation because they use such tiny transistors. Everything that makes effective shielding is comically heavy, getting things into space remains very expensive.